The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-24

the rendezvous for strange women Wno
came no one knows whence. stayed day
OF two, and then went no enc knew
whittier. Was the victim of this awful
trsgedy one of them2
Justice Depue, of Newark, has certified
to the Supreme Court Tor decision an in
, /. seStizg insurance controversy. A woman
named ScEmidt was member OF the
Knights and Ladies OF Honor, and shat
organization had issued a $1,000 policy
upon her life. she had generously made
her husband the beneficiary; but, few
months subsequently, he shot her in fit
of jealousy, and killed her. he was arrest
ed for murder. and while in jail killed hiHa-
L self. His administrator now sues to re
cover from the &. &-h OF Il. tbs afaoaEt
Of the insurance policy; that would, ia the
eye of the law, make a man profit by his
own crime, and Justice Depue held that it
would be repulsive to all sense of deeency
to permit the policy to be collected under
the Giro umstances. The administrator
then set up the plea that Schmidt was
crazy when be killed his wife. and that his
motive in taking her life was not to assist
in the collection OF the policy. The evil
dence in support of the insanity plea was
submitted, and then the whole matter was
certified TO the Supreme Court for reyisw
and adjudiction. The point is a new. one
in the jurisprudence of tie State. 1t the
1rt is satisfied from the evidence sab
mitted that the proofs of insanity would
have acquitted Schmidt On trial fer muir
der, it will probably order the payment of
the policy Bat We would not give many
dollars for the prospect OF collecting the
N oney his administrator lays claim TO.
Garrett, the scampish young lawyer, who
was adopted in his bsbyhood by the we'll
known builder of this city, and then
brought the name in disgrace with series
Of forgeries that landed him in the State
prison here, who then wen. to New York,
cut big epread, engaged himself in mar
risge to pretty Miss Charpentier in order
to defrsud her mother, and then went off
and married another girl, has come to his
level at last. He was hauled up in the
courts a New York on Friday for trial in
the Charpeatier swlndle, convicted, and
sentenced to six. years imprisonment.
G arretes foster parents gave him the most
careful Of Christian trainings. Mrs. Gar
rett loved him as though he had been her
own child, and shed a mothers tears over
him when he fell. But the chaste surround
ings of his home could not reform the bad
that had been born in him, and she found
the hope Of years Of solicitude brought up
with round term behind iron bars. 1t
| only goes to show how careful those VIII,
would take babies into their home for
adoption should inquire what kind of blood
runs in the veins Of the waif upon when
they propose to bestow their love and their
gifts. If it could be found out it would
be leSrned, doubtless. that CARROTS lineage
was bad. Blood will tell, even in this dem
ocratic age Of ours.
A correspondent solieits information as
TO tue probable location of the new City
Hall. Il is true as he iniimates, that there
has been some talk of utilizing Hamilton
Palk as site, and other sites are talked of.
But just now ell Information that might be
Of yalus on the point is denied. 1t is
likely that Mayor Cieveland's selection Of
commissioners to supervise the ccnstruc-
ton of tho Lew buildings will make up his
list with special reference to their views SIS
to site, but he practically de lines all in
formation on the subject by declaring thst
he has MOI given it particle Of consideri-
ton yet The board of Finance ars to ap-
prove or disappFoYs Of his nominations;
and if they have prefersncss as to site, tho
confirmation or rejection of the Mayer 5
noMinations viii be decided with the point
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